Presbyterian College’s music department will host the award-winning, world-renowned Scottish vocal artist, Julie Fowlis, at 7:30 p.m., on Oct. 19, at Edmunds Hall. Part of the music department’s Highland Series, Fowlis’s performance is sure to be an incredible experience recalling the highlands where PC has its cultural roots.

Fowlis has a passion for folk culture, song and music, seen especially in her recent collaborations with the Quebecois band Le Vent du Nord, Vocal ConneXions summer project, and musical friendship with the Irish singer and musician, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh.

Fowlis’s many awards and recognitions begin with the album “Cuilidh” in 2007, which earned her the awards of Gaelic Singer of the Year and Album of the Year at the 2007 Scots Trad Music Awards. In 2008, she was awarded the Folk Singer of the Year Award by BBC Radio 2, and she was given the honor of being Scotland’s first ever Gaelic Ambassador.

Since then, Fowlis has continued to further her musical career with a regular touring group that includes her husband Éamon Doorley, Dublin’s Tony Byrne, and Highlander Duncan Chisholm. Over the course of 10 years, Fowlis has released a total of four studio albums and six critically acclaimed recordings with other record labels. She has also become known for singing the theme song “Touch the Sky” in Disney Pixar’s “Brave,” which is set in the Scottish highlands.

Fowlis’s recent studio album features traditional songs in Gaelic and has led to her and her group winning the 2014 Folk Act of the Year award at the Scots Trad Music Awards. She is also the first Gaelic solo artist to win the Scottish Music Award in 2014.

For more information, contact Beverly Davis at bdavis@presby.edu or by phone at 864.833.8470.